Senior Engineering Manager - Streaming (Streaming)

Job description

Teamwork makes the stream work. Roku is changing how the world watches TV Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers. From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines. About the role You will be part of the Roku’s multiplatform engineering team and help with strategy, development, and optimization for multiple streaming apps and features on platforms like GoogleTV, FireTV, Samsung, Web etc. These apps delight millions of viewers and are expanding at a rapid pace. You will sit at the intersection of product, engineering, content, and monetization and driving a seamless user experience, subscriber growth and retention. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the OTT ecosystem, video delivery workflows, user experience and cross-platform app management and demonstrates strong technical and people leadership, display a balance of hard and soft skills, bring endless curiosity, AI fluency and pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution by thinking big and showing a bias for action. Key Responsibilities • Lead a team of software, QA and automation engineers. • Participate, contribute and execute the long-term vision for streaming applications across diverse platforms. • Prioritize features based on data-driven insights, market trends, and business goals. • Manage the P/SDLC from discovery and requirements gathering to launch and post-launch optimization. • Oversee the implementation of app features and integrations with video platform, browse, search, recommendations, Ads, and 3rd party SDKs (analytics, payment gateways). • Drive engineering and operational excellence. Monitor app and playback performance metrics, and system health KPIs. <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7"